I am still as I posted in my last visits as busy as ever. I actually decided for 2013 to make my little tinkering projects my business and got serious about advertising myself as an IT Tech and custom builder. Old timers to the forums who have been done wrong when someone gets $ for eyeballs should know I don't sell or even mention LMCE to my customers. I didn't build it, I understand it enough to keep my own equipment running and it's bad business all around.

I haven't been around much so tossing this problem out and hoping someone had a few spare minutes to look it over. I am troubleshooting it slowly but my only fix currently impacts other parts of my installation.

Hybrid/Core - ancient 2 Xeon server. Works greatMD1 - dell Desktop, (Inspiron?) it's the small white PCIe/SATA model and runs great and quietSqueezebox - installing this kills audio on my hybrid. So I assume it must grab an available sound card anywhere on eth1 network and use that?

MD2 however randomly changes its audio output from the onboard intel analog to the 3rd SB digital. This happens quite often and I have not found a way to lock its output down.Further and this occurs regardless of the squeezebox being added, mythTV is choosing an output seperate from the rest of the system. I can watch a movie or play audio/get security alerts but to hear anything from the tv I have to go to the MD and plug/unplug until I hear something.

- pull extra sound cards out means no squeezebox- I can not add these SB to my hybrid and make it a silent headless as its pci ports are not notched the same (3.5V vs 5V or something)- I could run a 3.5mm cable from a SB output to the squeezebox line-in but as far as I can tell that disables all control and makes it a amplified speaker only.

I am beyond my annoying insistence on hacking together old hardware to make it work. In this case if a better method than multiple sound cards keeps the squeezebox playing in the kitchen I will do it!

After post #2 I did a clone restore to Feb 2nd which was before I removed devices and broke it worse. From reading your other posts I need to do update/upgrade on each machine and then av wizard on them all. I should have your requested pastebin up by tomorrow. If its not resolved I will get you my equipment and instal details also.

Thought: does the squeeze server addition modify the alternativeSC file? It may be an important note for the order in which I add that device to my network.

Since applying the stored image I haven't this issue. Perhaps my most recent update/upgrade pulled down a bad audio setting? I will continue to use it as is, and have the roommates play media around the house and see if it stays.

Hybrid refused to rerun avwizardMD ran avwizard but I did not encounter any new screens- Selecteded onboard soundcard for audio (heard music, skipped digital test screens)- From orbiter selected audio for that MD and pressed play, no sound- Pulled and moved 3.5 jack until sound came out of speakers, found it on PCI SB#3 black plug

I highlighted the video card in green as I know you have been working on GT cards support for audio with HDMI. I don't know if that card is capable of it or not as its an older model but its worth noting I felt.

Also, it would be helpful if you could pastebin /usr/pluto/diskless/XX/var/log/pluto/AVWizard_Run_*.log where XX is the md number which refused to hit avwiz, I would like to know what's what with that. rm or mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot it and see if it gets to avwiz.

The hybrid that doesn't want to go to AV Wizard is the onboard 8mb ATI rage xl. Again, if it would benefit you I will post my pastebins but I am (like anyone should be with that chipset) happy to have it past failed-to-setup-X screen. After some web admin adjustments and using the ?fglxr? driver it can play most non-hd movies.

The XFX Nvidia 7600 GT that you think may handle audio out of the DVI port is one of my favorite budget cards. I have several laying about I put into mid-range media PCs. Any help you need testing them I will be happy to assist with.

Go ahead and update... and see if the problem persists. An ati rage eh... are you installing this fglrx manually? Because if the scheme sees fglrx and does not not recommend fglrx, it will purge it and reinstall all the base xorg stuff.

It would be helpful probably to go over all this in irc. I am off working today, but should be around tonight and tomorrow.

I think we have covered about every angle on that ATI chip l3mce. This is the SuperMicro machine I picked up with intentions of using as either a headless core or a NAS. I can now use it as a fully functional hybrid after finding an old Audigy card with the odd PCI voltage notches. To the best of my knowledge I have never gotten this system into AV Wizard, but from all of my (work?) testing dozens of machines I learned a few tricks to get around problems. As much as I tried, true programing and coding never came to me so these are ugly hacks only and as I describe them you will see how frustratingly limited they are. One thing I had to give up was having the hybrid Orbiter UI on a physical KVM switch because something as simple as not having the hybrid/core set as the active display will break it and require another reboot.

Fresh install (internet connection or not)I am going to get a blue screen Failed to Setup XFrom blue screen I go to tty2 and manually startxroot@dcerouter KDE desktop is where I end up with 2 items in my plasma panel "Desktop" and "New.pluto.xorg.conf" ~exact name I can not recallRename that file to xorg.conf and move it to /etc/x11/xorg.confManually enter the memorized settings I have for this Media Directory into web-admin otherwise the Xorg resolution is larger than the orbiter is drawn and I have the floating UI problemReboot and ignore as everything works better than could be expected... until...

Rebooting w/o an active internet connection is a gaurenteed Failed to Setup X situation. No internet access = no Linuxmce unless I want to repeat the aboveWith internet on reboot or startup I see the message that xorg.conf is missing when it tries to use the Radeon Driver. flgrx is used instead automagically (or as a result of my doing by the above)Asking for help is also now more difficult because I have an odd installation that could in some way be causing all types of other issues nobody else would see.

MD1 - MSI P45 Neo, onboard Intel 7 channel audio (though I have always just plugged into the green 3.5mm jack and run that cable along with my DVI to HDMI cable) XFX GeForce 7600 GT Using the bottom DVI port which is DVI/HDMI-2 in setup wizardThree PCI Sound Blaster Live! (5.1? cards) which have only been installed as 'could eventually use' for setting up squeeze players.This machine we worked together on for a while as it refused to go into AV Wizard. What is more accurate now that I have installed/reinstalled/broke/.../... so many times is that it will go to AV Wizard on first boot but after that will refuse to ever again. I have tried the ssh /usr/pluto/bin/RebootWithAVWizard.sh command and the onscreen orbiter command.

Questions:

The AlternateSC file is either a recent addition or something that previously didnt cause many issues so I am unfamiliar with it since my absence. There is verbage in those threads that does not make much sense to me so I am quite lost on what to edit, where its located and what I want the outcome to be. If anyonw could clarify these points for me I would be very grateful.

Is Multi-Channel audio and Multi-Soundcard the same option?Are multiple sound cards required for running multiple Slim Device players? (linuxmce + squeeze[anything] pulls search hits for softsqueeze, squeezeslave, logitech media server, slim-devices, and about 30 others I cant recall offhand. I just want to use use Slim Device Squeezebox Players/emulators)Is alsamixer still being used? I have edited and changed a lot of settings in the GUI version of this clicking unmute/mute and hoping it goes the right way.It appears that xine player can rewrite the configuration files set up in AVwizard. Where can I find a log of what application is using which system resource? Using my pull out the cord and stick it back into each of the 10 green (analog?) and black (digital?) ports until I get sound works for announcements, and media. It does not work for Asterisk calls or for MythTV, so I need a way to find out what they are trying to use.TSCHAK beat it into my head that the best way to break LMCE is to think I know better and start to /mnt or assign things manually but while they are not in use (pending question 2 response) can I flag them as do not use, disabled, reserved, blacklisted?

I think we have covered about every angle on that ATI chip l3mce. This is the SuperMicro machine I picked up with intentions of using as either a headless core or a NAS. I can now use it as a fully functional hybrid after finding an old Audigy card with the odd PCI voltage notches. To the best of my knowledge I have never gotten this system into AV Wizard, but from all of my (work?) testing dozens of machines I learned a few tricks to get around problems. As much as I tried, true programing and coding never came to me so these are ugly hacks only and as I describe them you will see how frustratingly limited they are. One thing I had to give up was having the hybrid Orbiter UI on a physical KVM switch because something as simple as not having the hybrid/core set as the active display will break it and require another reboot.

Fresh install (internet connection or not)I am going to get a blue screen Failed to Setup XFrom blue screen I go to tty2 and manually startxroot@dcerouter KDE desktop is where I end up with 2 items in my plasma panel "Desktop" and "New.pluto.xorg.conf" ~exact name I can not recallRename that file to xorg.conf and move it to /etc/x11/xorg.confManually enter the memorized settings I have for this Media Directory into web-admin otherwise the Xorg resolution is larger than the orbiter is drawn and I have the floating UI problemReboot and ignore as everything works better than could be expected... until...

Rebooting w/o an active internet connection is a gaurenteed Failed to Setup X situation. No internet access = no Linuxmce unless I want to repeat the aboveWith internet on reboot or startup I see the message that xorg.conf is missing when it tries to use the Radeon Driver. flgrx is used instead automagically (or as a result of my doing by the above)Asking for help is also now more difficult because I have an odd installation that could in some way be causing all types of other issues nobody else would see.

AVWizard should go. I want to continue to fight this thing. AVWizard is a requirement, to set the appropriate sound card. See http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,13115.0.html and links contained therein. Though we have done this before, I need you to give me the output of lspci -nn | grep VGA

MD1 - MSI P45 Neo, onboard Intel 7 channel audio (though I have always just plugged into the green 3.5mm jack and run that cable along with my DVI to HDMI cable) XFX GeForce 7600 GT Using the bottom DVI port which is DVI/HDMI-2 in setup wizardThree PCI Sound Blaster Live! (5.1? cards) which have only been installed as 'could eventually use' for setting up squeeze players.This machine we worked together on for a while as it refused to go into AV Wizard. What is more accurate now that I have installed/reinstalled/broke/.../... so many times is that it will go to AV Wizard on first boot but after that will refuse to ever again. I have tried the ssh /usr/pluto/bin/RebootWithAVWizard.sh command and the onscreen orbiter command.

Yeah... you are going to have to find a couple of hours and drop into chat with me. With all the changes made... I would expect the latest snap to "just work" on all of this.

analog multi-channel is supported, but you will have to do a small bit of work. More on that in a bit.

The AlternateSC file is either a recent addition or something that previously didnt cause many issues so I am unfamiliar with it since my absence. There is verbage in those threads that does not make much sense to me so I am quite lost on what to edit, where its located and what I want the outcome to be. If anyonw could clarify these points for me I would be very grateful.

It appears that xine player can rewrite the configuration files set up in AVwizard. Where can I find a log of what application is using which system resource? Using my pull out the cord and stick it back into each of the 10 green (analog?) and black (digital?) ports until I get sound works for announcements, and media. It does not work for Asterisk calls or for MythTV, so I need a way to find out what they are trying to use.

This has changed a lot very recently. I expect that everything will work with the latest. Check /etc/pluto/xine.conf (all that is relevant to what we do is in the last 4 or 5 lines... so tail -4 /etc/pluto/xine.conf )

TSCHAK beat it into my head that the best way to break LMCE is to think I know better and start to /mnt or assign things manually but while they are not in use (pending question 2 response) can I flag them as do not use, disabled, reserved, blacklisted?

You should not need to. Once you select the sound card you want in AVWizard (new menu, see first link) LMCE will NOT drift across cards.

A multi-channel analog out (like on most Motherboards these days) can be split into seperate stereo outputs and used for seperate squeezeslaves. This split is configured in asound.conf, here is an example:http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=422129